Altair Digital have announced that they are to bring the wonder of the solar system as historically experienced via your local Planetarium to virtual reality with Fulldome Cinema. One of the earliest forms of immersive education and perhaps a pre-cursor...

VR music videos seem to be digging out a sweet spot of quick and fun VR experiences that use the depth of virtual reality to immerse viewers in music with powerful and impossible visuals. Chocolate, a new VR music video...

Holo-this, holo-that. Holograms are so bamboozling that the term often gets used colloquially to mean 'fancy-looking 3D image', but holograms are actually a very specific and interesting method for capturing light field scenes which have some real advantages over...

At CES earlier this month, HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking device which taps into the Vive's Lighthouse tracking system, and which can be attached to objects to track them in VR, including purpose-built accessories. The company...

Jaunt, the cinematic VR company, has today revealed 5 different content deals slated to go into production in 2017, one of which—love it or hate it—will be based on the seminal '90s VR flick The Lawnmower Man (1992). And no, neither Pierce Brosnan nor Jeff...

Content distribution platform and VR studio Within is partnering up with FoxNext, a recently created immersive media division of 21st Century Fox. The new partnership is promising to "bring viewers a new slate of virtual reality experiences this year," the first of which will...

Plevr is a third-party application in development which brings the popular personal media streaming platform Plex to VR. The app is due for an initial release by the end of the month, and a new devlog video shows a major...

Kevin Mack is a digital fine artist and prolific visual effects designer known for his work across films such as Fight Club (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Fifth Element (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998) for which he won an...

A recent study by Facebook IQ, in which people completed one-on-one conversations in VR, concluded that most people respond positively, and introverts in particular feel more comfortable. Facebook IQ is a team established to assist marketers in understanding the...

During a Q&A on Reddit, Valve head Gabe Newell affirmed that the company is continuing development its own first-party VR content, as well as exploring interests in new technologies which could play a part in Valve's future. After dodging a flurry...

Late last year at Steam Dev Days, Valve talked about a new and improved design for the SteamVR Tracking / Lighthouse base stations, a core component of the Vive's tracking technology. Now the company says it plans to launch...

https://youtu.be/OBhc4UhU8NM Florida based SynergyWiz is designing a third-party head-mount for the HTC Vive which uses a PSVR-stlye 'halo' mounting design for added comfort, and offers the much desired visor flip functionality. Among the three major headsets out there, not one offers what...

At CES 2017, Intel was showing off more of its Project Alloy VR headset, including a roomscale multiplayer demo featuring 'merged reality', where the game environment adapts to your physical surroundings. Project Alloy Project Alloy is Intel's VR headset reference design....

Trebuchet, or not to trebuchet? There really is no question when it comes to Siegecraft Commander, a tabletop strategy game that combines traditional real-time strategy (RTS) elements with a unique base-building mechanic that's designed to significantly change the way you...

Frank He goes hands-on with Huawei's first Google Daydream compatible headset at CES 2017, one which takes cues from both the Samsung and Oculus engineered Gear VR and its closest stable mate, the Daydream View headset. Huawei’s Daydream compatible VR headset, into...